Tales from the Reuther Library

Women on a Mission: The Remarkable Heroes Who Put Men on the Moon

The Radical Fund: How a Band of Visionaries and a Million Dollars Upended America

The 1968 Florida Teachers’ Strike: Public Sector Unionism and the Fight against Sunshine State Conservatism

Talking Archives with the Society of Women Engineers

Polish American Women and Detroit’s 1938 Federal Screw Works Strike

Talking History with AFA President Sara Nelson

The Containment: Detroit, the Supreme Court, and the Battle for Racial Justice in the North

Remembering the Detroit Feminist Women’s Health Center

Union Exemption: Nonprofit Work and the Boundaries of the Commercial Economy, 1951–1976

Talking Archives with AFSCME Secretary-Treasurer Elissa McBride

Coach of Champions: D.L. Holmes and the Making of Detroit’s Track Stars

Para Power: How Paraprofessional Labor Changed Education

Oil Can Eddie and the Battle for the Steelworkers’ Union

Seeking “Self-Determination” in Detroit: Housing, Race, and the Activism of the West Central Organization, 1964-1971

Schools and the Rise of Mass Incarceration in a Post-Brown World

The Worthy Wages Movement for Childcare Workers

Awaiting Their Feast: Latinx Food Workers and Activism from World War II to COVID-19

The Carter Presidency and Gay Rights

A Fond Farewell with Audiovisual Archivist Mary Wallace

When Detroit Played the Numbers: Gambling’s History and Cultural Impact on the Motor City

Building Power, Breaking Power: The United Teachers of New Orleans, 1965-2008

Detroit Industry and ‘The Mural’

Organizing Your Own: The White Fight for Black Power in Detroit

Hillbilly Highway: Charting White Migration from Appalachia to the Industrial Midwest

Betty Friedan’s Labor Roots

The UAW’s Southern Gamble in Foreign-Owned Factories

Detroit Under Fire: Police Violence and Racial Justice in the Civil Rights Era

Labor Radical Harry Bridges and the Cold War Ire of the US Government

Labor Legend Harry Bridges and the Pacific Coast Longshore Strike of 1934

Taming the Octopus: Eli Black and the Search for Social Responsibility at the United Fruit / United Brands Company

Toxic Debt: An Environmental Justice History of Detroit

Latinx Encounters: How Mexicans, Mexican Americans, and Puerto Ricans Made the Modern Midwest

Under the Iron Heel: Repressing the IWW and Free Speech

“Girls, We Cannot Lose!”: Midwestern Black Women Activists During the Great Depression

“No Labor Dictators For Us”: Revisiting Anti-Union Forces in the Flint Sit-Down Strike

Heard It On the News: Preserving 20th Century Detroit History Through Local Newscasts

No Equal Justice: The Legal and Civil Rights Legacy of George W. Crockett Jr.

A Miasma of Metals: The Steelworkers’ Environmental Call Following the Donora Smog of 1948

A “Most Conscientious and Considerate Method”: Grosse Pointe’s Gross Post-War Housing Point System

Labor’s End: Automation’s Failed Promise of Freedom

Detroit vs. Everybody: Exploring Race, Place, and Black Superheroes in DC Comics

Detroit Remains: Using Historical Archeology to Connect Detroit’s Past to Its Present

Environmental Activism in Deindustrialized Detroit

Bargaining for the Common Good: Milton Tambor Reflects on 50 Years in Labor and Social Activism

And Many More: Celebrating SEIU’s Centennial in the Archives

Brewing a Boycott: Collective Activism and the Decades-Long Coors Beer Boycott

Communists and Community in Wartime Detroit

Sandfuture: Exploring Minoru Yamasaki, Lost Humanist Architecture, and the Rise of Sick Buildings and Sick People

Midnight in Vehicle City: Modern Lessons From the Flint Sit-Down Strike

Blaming Teachers: How America Simultaneously Professionalized and Patronized Education